Time Travel

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From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel.Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological ― the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture ― from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.

Despre autor

James Gleick

autor și istoric al științei american (n. 1954)

James Gleick este un autor și istoric american al științei a cărui lucrare a consemnat impactul cultural al tehnologiei moderne. Recunoscut pentru scrierea sa despre subiecte complexe prin tehnicile de nonficțiune narativă, el a fost numit „unul dintre marii scriitori de știință ai tuturor timpurilor”. El este parte din inspirația personajului Ian Malcolm din Jurassic Park.